7F

Window seat

Maybe there'll be fun things to see?

Manukau harbour 

Marlborough Sounds 

9D

I always turn to the wrong side when I get D. Not sure why. This is flying ladies' hours, especially staying in town and grabbing a 15 minute taxi to the airport.  Strike one against the burbs. 

It's possible I'll have a free seat next to me - it's a wee bit soon to be sure but a definite maybe. 

Ok, so the UM is on the plane. Maybe that's everyone. 

There's a baby in the seat in front who is very keen on the hair of the man in front of them. It might be a longer hour for him. 

Door closed. Spare seat a go go. 

10B

It's pelting down outside. 

Also it took about 90 minutes to drive from north shore hospital to the airport - a new record for me. I had no cares, being booked on the 7pm flight, and was not surprised to hear what I thought was the 6pm plane close while i was still clearing security. 

Anyhoo, dull story bro. 

Turned out that good old nz463 to welly and Dunedin was late again. And on I jumped. Painful for the actual 463 people but relatively awesome for me. 

I'm the jellybean in ten bravo, but that's what you get when you cheat fortune and blag an earlier flight. 

Weather snapshot follows 

2D

I confess. 

To eavesdropping in the Koru lounge.

To waging a silent war on man spreaders.

To pouring myself two glasses of bubbly at one time, due to the relatively modest size of the glass.

To sometimes (OK, often) reading my book (a novel) in place of emails, policy drafts, other work-based documents while waiting for and sitting on the plane.

To loafing... Lest that gentle art be lost.

5E

They've squashed me onto the 5pm flight so my week in Auckland is all but done. It was so lovely to catch up with a bunch of mates - and meet some new ones. Solidarity, etc, and big ups to the CTU 😎👊🏼

Due to chocka-ness I get the middle seat. 

Exhilarating tarmac view... E noho ra Tamaki

6C

All of last week I stayed home.  Wellington commutes every day.

Now that's that for the next conceivable while and I'm back on the plane.

They're still fixing up the gate lounges at Welly airport so we were sent over to 24 to board.  That meant security twice, and a very early, then slow, boarding process.  Matters not, flight's not very full at all and I have a spare seat as a neighbour - my favourite thing.

Main other thing to occupy me is to remember my bag at the other end.  Marathon stay this week.  Don't go home til Thursday.

10B

Middle seat, but home an hour earlier. Hard to argue with that. 

5C

Today we're in one of the trans-Tasman planes - that means personal screens but no headphones.  You're welcome to look, "but you will require your own headphones."

It's August but no Kia ora magazine - not sure what that's about.

It's looking cloudy and bumpy - possibly most of the way cos the weather's pretty much same same all over the north island.

Thinking maybe back to my book - Dublin Murder Squad - epic series by Tana French.